The ‘Love Is Blind’ 2-hour wedding finale drops tomorrow; are you watching Netflix’s addictive ‘love experiment’?

Sure, it’s only February, but “Love Is Blind” from Netflix is already vying for the most ridiculous and compulsively watchable show of 2020.

While a lot of Americans are tuning into presidential debates, or watching to see if their basketball team makes the playoffs, or worry-watching YouTube videos about how to prepare for the coming coronavirus, a whole other group of people has opted for a much more mindless way to fill the hours between now and the coming apocalypse: a Netflix reality dating show.

Warning: Mild spoilers ahead for the episodes already available. If you leave work now, you should have time to watch all nine episodes and then come back and read this.

What is it about “Love Is Blind” that makes it so dumb and yet so entertaining? It could be the absolutely ludicrous premise -- Nick and Vanessa Lachey are hosting a group of heterosexual singles between the ages of 24 and 34 who must date through a wall and then, if they want to continue being filmed, propose to each other and then get married in a month.

Note: The man, of course, will do the proposing, except in one case where a woman also proposes but only after the man does it first. The gender roles in this show are strictly enforced.

Another note: Though the show is meant to make people get to know each other without physical attraction, all the participants are annoyingly conventionally attractive.

Last note: Hilariously, they all live in the Atlanta area, so it isn’t too hard to imagine that in fact they have already swiped left on each other multiple times on Tinder.

Next, after several days of talking through a wall, then a proposal, the couples are flown to a Mexican retreat for a few days to possibly have sex or not have sex, depending on if they want to or not. Not everyone is required to consummate their “blind” love, but everyone is required to drink wine and talk about it uncomfortably.

The couples then have about 25 days in which to live together, meet their families, drink more wine, feed wine to their pets and ask pertinent marriage questions like, “Do you have a job?” and “So, you’re saying you’ve never made a student loan payment and your credit card is maxed out because you spent $300 at Sephora?”

Then, the couples get married.

The genius part of this very not genius show is that Netflix is doling out episodes over three weeks and the finale two-hour show drops Thursday. As if that wasn’t enough, Variety reports that Netflix will air a reunion special on its YouTube channel on March 5.

Are you ready to wallow in the horror of weddings between people who just met 30 days ago? Are you fiending to find out seriously what happened to these couples when they tried to actually live together and what happens to a dog when it “loves wine”? Me too. Luckily, we only need to wait one more day.

-- Lizzy Acker

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